The aircraft flew up to speeds of 1,200mph. DARPA did not reveal which aircraft won the dogfight.

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    What if the human is pulling the trigger to “paint the target” and tag it for hunt and destroy then the drone goes and kills it? Because that’s how lots of missles already work. So where’s the line?

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        Like if someone made a biological weapon that wipes out a continent

        Will someone go to prison?

        It’s no difference

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        Only the losing side is subject to war crimes trials, and no doubt rules of engagement will be developed and followed to prevent people going to jail due to “bad kills”.

        There are really no “bad kills” in the armed services, there’s just limited exposure of public scandals.

        Especially for the US who does subject it’s self to international courts like The Hague. So any atrocities, accidents, or war crimes will still just be internal scandals and temporary.

        Same as today.

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          If a country implements murder machines that efficiently slay a continent then does not stop at the sea.

          Will nobody for real do nothing?

          Is that your belief for bad kills? Same with gas and engineered disease?

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            A murder machine would likely run out of supplies before then (either fuel or bullets).

            You’ve jumped to a theoretical sci fi abstraction, so don’t feel the need to respond.

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                Your unrealistic what ifs don’t interest me. Perhaps if you offered a more realistic scenario than “it’s gonna kill and not stop because it will just have infinite bullets and energy”.

                …like learn the basics of reality before posing such a stupid scenario.

                So yeah, I won’t indulge a childish discussion. Sorry kid. Maybe try growing the fuck up if you want to invite an adult discussion.

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                  Yes they do.

                  Do you not understand how childish it is to vomit several personal attacks on me for my opinion

                  You are the one interested and I reply my opinion

                  Grow the absolute fuck up

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                    You don’t have an original thought in your head. Look at you, you’re repeating things I said to you. What a joke.

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      The line is where an automatic process target and execute a human being. When it is automated. The arming of a device is not sufficient to warrant a human interaction, and as such mines are also not allowed.

      This should in my opinion always have been the case. Mines are indiscriminate and have proven to be wildly inhumane in several ways. Significantly, innocents are often killed.

      But mines don’t paint the picture of what automated slaughter can lead to.

      The point has been laid that when the conscious mind has to kill, it makes war have an important way to end, in the mind.

      The dangers extend well beyond killing innocent targets, another part is the coldness of allowing a machine to decide, that is beyond morally corrupt. There is something terrifying about the very idea that facing one of these weapons, there is nothing to negotiate, the cold calculations that want to kill you are not human. It is a place where no human ever wants to be. But war is horrible. It’s the escalation of automated triggers that can lead to exponential death with no remorse which is just a terrible danger.

      The murder weapons has nobody’s intent behind them, except very far back, in the arming and the program. It open for scenarios where mass murder becomes easy and terrifyingly cold.

      Kind of like the prisoner’s dilemma shows us, that when war escalates, it can quickly devolve into revenge narratives, and when either side has access to cold impudent kills, they will use them. This removes even more humanity from the acts and the violence can reach new heights beyond our comprehension.

      Weapons of mass destruction with automated triggers will eventually seal our existence if we don’t abolish it with impunity. It has been seen over and over how the human factor is the only grace that ever end or contain war. Without this component I think we are just doomed to have the last intent humans ever had was revenge, and the last emotions fear and complete hopelessness.

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        Well, that’s all very idealistic, but it’s likely not going to happen.

        Israel already used AI to pick bombing sites, those bombs and missiles would have been programmed with altitudes and destinations (armed) then dropped. The pilots only job these days is to avoid interception, fly over the bombing locations, tag the target when acquired, and drop them. Most of this is already done in software.

        Eventually humans will leave the loop because unlike self-driving cars, these technologies won’t risk the lives of the aggressor’s citizens.

        If the technology is seen as unstoppable enough, there may be calls for warnings to be given, but I suspect that’s all the mercy that will be shown…

        … especially if it’s a case of a country with automated technologies killing one without or with stochastically meaningless defenses (eg. Defenses that modelling and simulations show won’t be able to prevent such attacks).

        No, in all likelihood the US will tell the country the attack sites, the country either will or will not have the technical level to prevent an amount of damage, will evacuate all necessary personal, and whoever doesn’t get the message or get out in time will be automatically killed.

        Where defenses are partially successful, that information will go into the training data for the next model, or upgrade, and the war machine will roll on.

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          Sorry I was stressed when replying. Yeah in those cases humans have pulled the trigger. At several stages.

          When arming a murder bot ship and sending to erase an island of life, you then lose control. That person is not pulling loads and loads of triggers. The triggers are automatic by a machine making the decision to end these lives.

          And that is a danger, same as with engineered bio warfare. It just cannot be let out of the box even, or we all may die extremely quick.

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            I imagine there would be overrides built in. Until the atom bombs were physically dropped a simple radio message could have called off the mission.

            Likewise the atom bombs were only armed/activated at a certain point during the flight to Nagasaki and Hiroshima… And I believe Nagasaki wasn’t even the original target, it was an updated target because the original city scheduled for bombing was clouded over that day.

            So we do build contingencies and overrides in.

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              The entire point of automating the killing is that it is no dead man’s switch or any other human interaction involved in the kill. It is moot if there is one such. Call offs or dead switch back doors safety contingencies are not a solution to rampant unwanted slaughter as it can fail in so many ways and when the wars escalate to the point where those need to be used it is too late because there are 5 different strains of murder bots and you can only stop the ones you have codes to and those codes are only given to like three people at top secret level 28

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                The entire point of automating the killing is that it is no dead man’s switch or any other human interaction involved in the kill.

                Of course someone has to set the mission jack ass. You’re so stupid. What’s your issue?

                It is moot if there is one such. Call offs or dead switch back doors safety contingencies are not a solution to rampant unwanted slaughter as it can fail in so many ways and when the wars escalate to the point where those need to be used it is too late because there are 5 different strains of murder bots and you can only stop the ones you have codes to and those codes are only given to like three people at top secret level 28

                You really have no idea how technology is developed. You probably think tanks, guns, nuclear weapons were just made as end products… Just designed from scratch and popped into existence one day. No testing, no stages of refinement, no generation changes in protocol… No in your idiotic mind end products just pop out fully formed.

                This is why I told you I wouldn’t entertain your abstractions - because they’re idiotic. It’s just mental vomit from a moron. Bye.

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                  Extremely childish to use personal attacks for me sharing my opinion

                  Good luck with that kind of graceful life lol bye man, if you ever grow up we can continue discussing haha

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          You described a scenarios where a human was involved in several stages of the killing so it’s no wonder those don’t hold up